It was very obvious he got sucked into his ~deep misunderstood artisté~ persona too hard. Too much pretense and it backfired on him. He's not established enough to pull off stunts like these. Blonde was kind of a failure.
obviously Universal tried to tarnish his image with this
blocking other record labels from gettin his physical cd and obviously this trash article
there is no explanation why no one would've picked it up when da demand was there, like whenever he releases, if he ever does, a physical copy or vinyl, i'm so picking it up
so u damned if u go with a label and damned if you don't
He messed with his fans too much about announcing all these dates and not following through so I don't feel bad at all. I loved CO, but it just doesn't work when he put us through that and the album just doesn't live up. Whatever maybe I'll return one day
I don't blame him for trying to take complete control of his business even if it was poorly planned and executed. Even though it hurt the profile and overall longevity of his project, he probably made more money selling 300k on his own than he might have seen selling a million with a label cut. I don't understand people that are cheering on labels shutting out an artist out of the system to make an example of him; that's not a good thing at all.
Okay. So this was his 4. When he tried to take control and all didn't go as planned. In the end it was a great exercise in management for him. I trust that he can take the appropriate steps to restructure his approach to work better in the future.
I don't see the issue in artists trying new things. That's what makes hem artists after all.
stop with label =evil thing lol
If you actually read the behind storys and know how the industry works.. he's the one did **** to label.
no label want the small sales of second week and deal with artist who hate label, try to sabotage previous label.
and he's not making big money at all. he's not getting airplay royalty as there's no radio single, not getting streaming payola= no big moeny from streaming, no hype and marketing.. and no sales.
stop with label =evil thing lol
If you actually read the behind storys and know how the industry works.. he's the one did **** to label.
no label want the small sales of second week and deal with artist who hate label, try to sabotage previous label.
and he's not making big money at all. he's not getting airplay royalty as there's no radio single, not getting streaming payola= no big moeny from streaming, no hype and marketing.. and no sales.
his streaming is fine... **** radio i dont listen to it.
Karma. It's sad that the experiment didnt work out tho. It'd be so good for other artists. But! With such a rapid decline of physical sales i dont think it matters that much. In 3-5 years CDs will stop selling almost at all so the artists may stop worrying about labels input in this part
So what's I got from the article and thread is that Frank Ocean is a failure because of lack of physical albums being sold? Even though his album sales first week were impressive without them (some of you faves probabaly haven't sold that in total) and he made over $1 million from his first week sales alone.
Since when did artistic integrity/making your own moves become a bad thing?